OK, I've hinted at conspiracy so here's my take. One way
that conspiracy theories become unreasonable and kooky
is by making too much of individual events, especially
ones that involve chance.

FEMA being used to go after Blanco is too small a task
to be the object of a grand conspiracy, and is too
fortuitous -- because Katrina could have missed.

Rather, the conspiracy is somewhere else, and the lack of
FEMA readiness is explained by the conspiracy.

How could the administration think it could get away with
lack of FEMA readiness?

"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> said:

In <G9adncIfnOpAYLneRVn-hw@comcast.com>, "JTEM" <gymraven@hotmail.com>
wrote:

"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote

Despite my aversion to conspiracy thinking, I have to say, the more
I read, the more I wonder if the foot dragging by FEMA wasn't in
some part a way of trying to force Blanco's hand...

We're living in an America were the President of the United States
invaded a country on the weight of forged documents, bogus intel &
revenge for a terrorist attack planned by a close family friend of
his.

Quite frankly, there is no longer any such thing as a "Kooky
conspiracy theory."

"Ivory Soap is made by devil worshippers" is down right reasonable
compared to what we have witnessed in the days since November of
2000.

That's the disturbing thing these days, the kooks are starting to
sound *reasonable.

OK, I've hinted at conspiracy so here's my take. One way that
conspiracy theories become unreasonable and kooky is by making too
much of individual events, especially ones that involve chance. FEMA
being used to go after Blanco is too small a task to be the object of
a grand conspiracy, and is too fortuitous -- because Katrina could
have missed. Rather, the conspiracy is somewhere else, and the lack of
FEMA readiness is explained by the conspiracy.

How could the administration think it could get away with lack of FEMA
readiness? That is the basic question. Here is one answer, that is, in
a way, a conspiracy theory. The people running the administration
believe there will not be another 9/11-scale terrorist attack in the
US, so the failure to have FEMA readiness is not a problem in this
way, in their view. It won't be needed. They have terrorist attacks on
the US under control, in their view. (Although they tell us to expect
something; in case it happens.) But Katrina was not a terrorist
event. That is what tripped them up. However, they can survive this
blow, by shifting blame, running the investigation, and making it
politically expedient for all concerned to make nice. Mayor Nagin is
sounding relatively conciliatory these days. Everybody who matters
will eventually come around.

Why do they believe there will not be another 9/11-scale terrorist
attack? That is the stuff of some of the deeper conspiracy theories.
One that seems kookiest is that they carried out 9/11. The airplanes
were robotically controlled, flight 93 was shot down, etc. But that
doesn't have to be theorized. If the administration really believes
that its demonstrated willingness to destroy and disrupt Islamic
nations has made OBL's backers (eg, the Saudi oil families) get him to
lay off the US, and word of that has gotten back to the
administration, that would be enough to make the administration think
(rightly or wrongly) that there will not be another Al Caeda
9/11-scale attack in the US, so they don't need the massive FEMA and
inter-agency readiness it would call for.

The conspiracy itself is not really hidden. In a sense, there is no
conspiracy, there are just reasons that things are happening, reasons
that people can't state because to state them would give opponents
reasons to rally support. What is going on is that, in the minds of
the power elite, the end of the Cold War give both opportunity and
need for the US, as the supreme world power, to build what is in
effect a world empire based on economic globalization with the US on
top. It has to be done before the impending end of the Oil Age becomes
glaringly obvious; which could start in 10-20 years. More can be said
about this, but it is tangential to FEMA's failure so I won't waste
space here. Just to say that FEMA's failure and any collateral damage
from that is not the "aim" of a conspiracy.
--- Jim07D5

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:38:31 GMT, Marc Fleury
<marcfleury@sympatico.ca> wrote:

"Witziges Rätsel" <zer@roer.com> wrote

Will voters finally see the cowering dimwit that he is?

No.

I agree. That would require the ability to see one's own mistakes.
His voters are just like him - even if they _could_ somehow
miraculously see the error of their ways, they'd hog-tie Hell before
ever _admitting_ to them.

"Uncle Vic" <address@withheld.com> wrote in message
news:Xns96CDB5A5A306Fvicman@216.196.97.136...

Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet Witziges Rätsel
(zer@roer.com) made the light shine upon us with this:

"One prominent African-American supporter of Mr. Bush who is close to
Karl Rove, the White House political chief, said the president did
not go into the heart of New Orleans and meet with black victims on
his first trip there, last Friday, because he knew that White House
officials were 'scared to death' of the reaction.

"'If I'm Karl, do I want the visual of black people hollering at the
president as if we're living in Rwanda?' said the supporter, who
spoke only anonymously because he did not want to antagonize Mr.
Rove."

Actually bilbo, they were also shooting at doctors, nurses, fireman,
police and
their rescuers..

I wouldn't want to go in there either.

Yeah, but you ain't the POTUS. You ain't our leader, the
uniter, our
Commander in Chief, the Capo di Tutti Capi of the Free World. He
showed his colors during Nam and he's showing them now. Will
voters finally see the cowering dimwit that he is?

Not as long as he keeps leading them in prayer.

"There is no greater fool, than he that seeks wisdom, on his knees, with
his eyes closed"

I wish I knew from where this quote originated, so as to credit the
person, but sadly I do not.